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It was expected, but what wasn't known is how far the Fed would go in terms of cutting interest rates. Today, well now we know a half point ABC's Derek Dennis has the tails.
The half point cut is larger than a quarter point cut many analysts had expected, and it signals an aggressive move by the Fed and its ongoing effort to tamp down on inflation. Many say it's a real milestone for the US economy, of victory in a sense because it could start a trend by the Fed to gradually lower interest rates over the next year. Car and mortgage loans, credit card interest all expected to get cheaper with this Federal Reserve rate cut, Derek Dennis, ABC News.
Right after the rate cut was announced this afternoon at two o'clock, the stock market took off. In fact that that was up well over three hundred points for a time, and then somebody turned things around and hit the brakes and by the time the thing was all over today just two hours later, all of the major indexes were lower. The Dow in fact lost one hundred and three points today.
We'll get details coming up with Bloomberg introw oday watching all of it for you and don't forget you can always listen to us on the go download the iHeartRadio app. Lebanon remains under fire, not for missiles or tanks, but from electronic devices. Multiple explosions hit different parts of the country today.
Nervous people milling around on the streets of a route after another wave of text, this time targeting walkie talkies. One of the detonations at the site of a funeral for three HESBELA members and a child killed by exploding pagers the day before.
Devices hit today were part.
Of the group's emergency communication system, which was supposed to be used during a war with Israel. Tom rivers ABC News at the Foreign Desk.
As the Karen Reid legal saga continues, the Commonwealth is adding to its team. Details from wbz's Brooke McCarthy.
The retrial of Karen Reid is set for January of next year, and the Commonwealth is adding another attorney to their team. Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey says special Assistant DA Hank Brennan will lead the Commonwealth's case against Karen Reid. He will join Adya Adam Lally, who was the lead prosecutor for the first trial, and the rest of their team. The DA's office says Attorney Brennan has over twenty five years of experience in an expertise in handling complex law
enforcement matters. In a statement, Brennan says he aims to make sure the facts surrounding John O'Keefe's death are fully and fairly aired in the courtroom. This comes as lawyers for Reid are appealing to the state's highest court to get two of the three charges against her dropped on the grounds of double jeopardy. As of right now, she will face a second trial on all three charges. Brooke McCarthy WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Gas in brocktonner looking for the man responsible for sexually assaulting a thirteen year old girl. Please say that girl was walking home home from West Middle School yesterday. That's when a man approached her on West Elm Street, nearly a mile from the school. Rockton's Public Schools interim superintendent says schools aren't working closely with police and they're asking students to remain vigilant and report anything concerning to an adult. Tonight,
we'll start it off with some rain and showers. A little bit later on south coast Capean Islands, we'll get in on a little bit of rain. Closer to Boston.
It appears late tonight, so we could get some wetness in the city, but a lot of it's going to be off toward our south, and then a cloudy, breezy day tomorrow, occasional rain, steadiest south of the mass Pike, temperatures close to seventy more rain, a little bit of a wind around Tomorrow night as well, a low of sixty two, and then some more rain for Friday, with clouds and windy conditions. Temperatures in the upper sixties, probably mid sixties is going to do it for most of us.
On Saturday. We'll still have clouds of breeze and a few showers around. Right now, it is sixty seven degrees in Boston. The big EA is back in West Springfield, and few are happier than the guy who has to clean the toilets. Yeah, the toilet guy with the busy is Matt Sure as his story so.
You're walking around the Biggie. You just put back a bacon cheeseburger with waffles for buns, and now you need to make a pit stop. You walk into the bathroom and there's a dude with a microphone singing his heart out.
You see, my name is Chris, is my bathroom, and I make using a bathroom a pleasant experience.
As a bathroom attendant, all Chris really has to do is keep an eye on it, but he goes above and beyond.
Nobody decorates the bathrooms like I do. I put flowers in the.
Air, also lights, streamers, plastic butterflies, and of course his signature karaoke machine. Unusual maybe, but to Chris, it's about making the most of a stinky situation.
No matter what job you get in life, get a job that you enjoy and in the long run, it.
Pays off from the best bathroom at the Biggie. Matt Shearer WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
If you want to check out more of Matt's adventures, including his bathroom adventures, check out our TikTok after with the BZ News Radio. A new feature is being rolled out by Uber. This one. They say we'll make drivers Safe.
For Kuber is out with a new rider verification system. It works by having users take a photo of their ID and then a selfie. After that, the app will match the two pictures and assign a blue check mark to the profile. CEO Dara Kosvershahi tells ABC News it's designed to boost safety on the app amid several recent attacks on drivers.
Late night, et cetera. If you have a verified badge, you have an advantage over someone who might not be verified.
Mike Debaski, ABC News. You see him everywhere when you're driving. Guardrails, turns out many of them may not guard enough depending on your vehicle. New crash tests of electric vehicles point to guardrails on America's roads that are typically tested against vehicles weighing up to five thousand pounds, but many electric vehicles weigh up to thirty percent more, and some of the guardrails may not hold.
Up, University of Nebraska professor Cody Stoley.
Unfortunately, these guardrail systems, which have performed very well with gasoline vehicles historically, do not appear to be containing electric vehicles when impacting with similar types of conditions.
In July, Shuley's team ran this seven thousand pound electric pickup into concrete barriers commonly used as freeway medians at sixty two miles an hour, Weighing two thousand pounds more than a gas powered pickup. The barriers contain the collision, but chunks of concrete were sent flying.
That is CBS's Chris Van Cleeve. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio